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  1. Hackles raised over RAE 2008 1

    The proposed concession by some research assessment exercise panels of allowing so-called super-books to count as two items highlights the anomaly of books in general in the RAE ("RAE countdown 2008...

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  2. Hackles raised over RAE 2008 2

    I am outraged by the efforts of Royal Academy engineers to import what can only be regarded as institutionalised age discrimination into the RAE process. Their (reportedly) successful efforts to...

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  3. Hackles raised over RAE 2008 3

    The main argument against the RAE's shift of focus from prestige journals appears to be organisational and administrative - concerning the practicality of "ensuring that high-quality research is...

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  4. Anything but blase 1

    The headline "Science blase on terror" and the first line "Scientists in the UK are failing to consider potential terror threats resulting from their work and dismissing warnings about bio-weapons" (...

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  5. Anything but blase 2

    I sympathise with Lee Harvey's belief that first-years should not be taught by graduate students (Letters, July 15), especially when it comes to marking and feedback. But I suspect that any graduate...

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  6. Facts on figures

    The letter from Alfred Morris ("Not so clear view", July 15) contains an obvious non sequitur. In order for the vice-chancellor to replicate the position of the University of the West of England in...

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  7. Associate staff snub

    You ran an advertisement on July 8 from the Association of University Teachers suggesting that the Open University had agreed assimilation to the new pay plan. This is misleading - it relates to full...

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  8. Online experience

    While I agree with Helen Davey's point in her Soapbox column (July 1) that institutions should take some responsibility for incorporating work experience into the academic programme, students...

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  9. Relatively long wait

    Arthur Miller's article on Arthur Eddington (Features, July 15) is excellent on the Anglo-Saxon reception of news of the verification on November 7, 1919, of Einstein's theory. But this contrasts...

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  10. Latin lore

    While, as a lecturer in Latin, I agree with Roy Harris that Tore Janson's Natural History of Latin is a "dumbing down" unworthy of Oxford University Press (Books, July 15), I am surprised to find him...

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  11. Customer is right

    Shola Adenekan suggests that as students now pay fees tutors should be more understanding when it comes to granting extensions (Why II July 22). I think we should follow Poppleton's lead and award...

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  12. Eccentrics welcome

    Mary Evans argues that despite the feminine attributes demanded by the Quality Assurance Agency (Soapbox, July 22) women are undervalued in universities, but also says that "the worst excesses of...

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  13. Popple-town?

    What makes Poppleton a "city" if it lacks a cathedral (Laurie Taylor, July 22)? Douglas B. Kell Research chair in bioanalytical science Manchester University

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  14. Has the pen lost its might?

    Letter-writing could become a lost art in the age of e-mail, and future biographers will be denied a rich source of material. Olga Wojtas reports Graham Farmelo is profoundly grateful that long-...

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